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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Providence, RI: Geo. P. Daniels, 1839. Title page dated 1839. Two stories in one book. Softcover, bright yellow covers, 24 pages, frontis woodcut, vignette on title page, other woodcuts throughout. Good condition with restitched spine, edgewear, pages age-toned but clean, name in pencil on the front blank. Soft Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Palatino, one of 600 copies. Fine condition. Inscribed to Barbara [Wright]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Zustand: Gut. *Minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Hinterer Deckel mit Kratzern. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. First edition. 27 pgs. 6 x 8 in. Green paper covers with paper label on spine and red label on cover. Condition of the book is GOOD+ ; cover lightly soiled, with small stain, spine worn with rip, and spine quite darkened, corners slightly worn. Text very clean.

Zustand: Gut. *Minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Providence: Geo. P. Daniels, 1839. First Edition. Good/No Dust Jacket. Mammas Lessons for Her Little Boys and Girls Chiefly in Words of One Syllable. Illustrated with woodcuts. Published in 1839 by Geo. P. Daniels, Providence. Booklet format with heavy wear but complete. Publishers catalog at rear.…

Manuscript. Zustand: Very Good. Twenty-three letter-sized manuscript leaves (approx. 8.5" x 11"). Written in dark ink and hand-numbered by Lovecraft: page numbers 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 26b, and 27-43. The manuscript pages feature heavy contemporary ink revisions, cancellations, interlinear additions, and a data table. Lovecraft concludes on page 43 in ink: "The End / Thank Gawd!" and the manuscript is signed "Houdini" by Harry Houdini in pencil at the conclusion. The manuscript is written on the reverse sides of correspondence and constitutes a rich literary archive, preserving original incoming letters to H.P. Lovecraft. Professional and personal correspondence, typescript poetry submissions, and editorial rejections sent to Lovecraft between 1922 and 1926 by associates, editors, and other contemporaries are represented here. Some horizontal folding creases, sporadic edge wear and chipping, age-toning. The Manuscript (Rectos): A major autograph working draft of The Cancer of Superstition, the ghostwritten treatise commissioned by Harry Houdini in 1926 to combat spiritualism and commercial fortune-telling. Writing entirely in his own hand, Lovecraft systematically deconstructs astrology using modern astronomical scientific knowledge-citing the precession of the equinoxes, light-speed delays, and extragalactic nebulae-while refuting astrological claims through logic, probability, and history. Lovecraft mounts a rigorous scientific assault on astrology, treating pseudoscience not merely as an intellectual failing but as a cosmic absurdity. On page 39, he constructs a detailed planetary data table tracking diameters, solar distances, and revolution periods, arguing that when viewing these immense scales, "we can no longer entertain the astrological illusion that our earth is a considerable object for whose benefit the rest of the universe is arranged." Turning his venom toward the commercial occult trade, Lovecraft decries "how many dollars are snatched from the unwary by a device so ancient & so simple," warning that "many lives have been utterly wrecked through the random bombast & gibberish of some ignorant & unscrupulous soothsayer" (page 26). Elsewhere, he dismantles horoscopic predictions through celestial mechanics, noting that zodiac signs "sprang partly from apparent conditions no longer existing" (35), and questions the clockwork of the planets reckoning with light-speed delays crossing vast distances of the cosmos: "If the planets rule the earth, why are not the real times of their aspects calculated; instead of the apparent times as judged by their light as it reaches us?" (38). Driving his argument to its climax, Lovecraft brands astrology as "a legacy from primitive times; a sister of witchcraft, fetichism [.] a shame & a nuisance in the world of broadening thought," and brings his draft to an exhausted close: "The End / Thank Gawd!" (43). The Correspondence (Versos): Lovecraft reused the blank backs of incoming correspondence received between 1922 and 1926 to draft the text-a lifelong habit born of extreme poverty and his frequent inability to afford fresh writing paper. These versos contain letters, poems, and notes from key associates including W. Paul Cook, James F. Morton Jr., Anne T. Renshaw, Horace L. Lawson, Leo Fritter, Edward L. Sechrist, and John Ravenor Bullen. Notably, Leaf 26b preserves a typed rejection letter from Macfadden Publications (Ghost Stories magazine) dated September 13, 1926, establishing the precise date of composition weeks prior to Houdini's death on October 31, 1926. Beyond serving as draft paper, these recycled letters capture vivid glimpses into Lovecraft's inner circle and literary network. James F. Morton Jr. bemoans his paid ghostwriting work, lamenting "The more I work on this stuff, the more I realize the hopeless inadequacy of the profanity division of the English language" while praising mutual associate Samuel Loveman as "a greater genius than both of us together" (see letter on reverse of HPL's corresponding manuscript page 41). A remarkably interesting and macabre letter from entomologist Edward L. Sechrist is present. Inspired by Lovecraft's horror fiction, Sechrist muses on having little "reverence for human meat than for any other kind of flesh and I believe I could contentedly pick a bone with the rest of a group of cannibals squatted beside a little fire. So I rather appreciate your Doctor's experiments. I have no shivers for anything." (28-29). Crucially anchoring the entire assembly is a formal rejection letter (26b) from Macfadden Publications' Ghost Stories magazine ("I regret that I am unable to use it"), typed September 13, 1926-providing the definitive date of this manuscript composition just weeks before Houdini's untimely death. Historical & Publication Context: Following their successful 1924 collaboration on "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs," Harry Houdini retained Lovecraft to spearhead a book-length crusade against spiritualism and pseudoscience. Lovecraft devised the work's master outline and drafted its core scientific arguments, bringing in his Providence associate C. M. Eddy, Jr. to expand prose chapters under his editorial direction. The project came to a sudden halt when Houdini unexpectedly died on Halloween 1926, prompting his widow, Bess Houdini, to discontinue the work. Long regarded as a legendary lost collaboration-represented in print for decades only by Lovecraft's outline in Arkham House's The Dark Brotherhood (1966) and a partial typescript discovery in 2016-the text remained unpublished for nearly a century until its debut release in March 2025 by 1878 Press Co., titled The Cancer of Superstition and credited to "Harry Houdini & C.M. Eddy, Jr. Outline by H.P. Lovecraft." Here, preserving twenty-three pages written entirely in Lovecraft's own hand, this manuscript proves he penned far more than a mere outline for this famous lost work. Signed. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce, private printing of a letter from Rudyard Kipling to the editor of the 'Spectator' detailing his thoughts on the possible source of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. The first and only edition. Limited to 52 copies.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling.In the publisher's original quarter calf with paper to the boards.Very scarce.Privately printed.This work features a letter from the Nobel Prize winning author Rudyard Kipling, to the editor of the Spectator, to which this letter was first published on the 2nd of July in 1898, discussing the possible source of Shakespeare's tempest. Bound in quarter calf with paper to the boards. Externally very smart with fading to the spine and slight edge wear. Spotting to the extremities of the endpapers, lighter to the rear with slight offsetting. Internally firmly bound with bright pages and scattered spotting throughout. The odd page unopened. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. 24 mo. A later edition, but still an early and uncommon chapbook. Each of the stories imparts lessons of good behavior and morality. The last story is about the camel's feelings of resentment and how once it acts out, it immediately forgets. It tells of how camel drivers drop their clothes when their camels become angry so that the camel will rush at the clothes and trample them rather than the driver. Afterwards, "the driver re-appears, and the whole business is forgotten." Brown paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Hand sewn with brown thread. Occasional smudge marks to interior, but clean overall. Crease to covers. Includes frontispiece illustration of both main characters and 12 in text woodcut illustrations. 24 pages. Size: about 5.5 x 3.5 inches. CHILD/062524.…

Folio sheet music, pp. [4]; lithographed vignette title page depicting the Museum Building at 127 Westminster Place with Taber's Music Store's facade included. Two pages of musical notation. Removed from binding, light tidestain on bottom edge, very good. The Museum building depicted on the title page was destroyed by fire in October of 1853, the same year of this item's publication. Boston Athenaeum only in OCLC. John Hopkins has another in its Levy Sheet Music Collection.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Third edition (originally published in 1834)? 24mo. 23pp. Engraving frontispiece, title page, and vignettes throughout. Illustrated yellow wrappers. Contemporary gift inscription, some overall modest foxing, and light edgewear, a very good example. The first story book opens with walk in New York City, in the Battery, with comparisons between New York City and the state of Rhode Island. *OCLC* locates only four copies of this edition.…

14.5 cm. 23pp., illus. Orange printed wrappers, stitched. The date on the title page differs from that on front wrapper which is 1839. Rear wrapper lists other titles from this publisher. Small hole in upper margin of front wrapper, scattered foxing. OCLC: AAS, Yale, NW Univ., Univ. of Chicago, CA State at Chico, Univ. of NH, Free Lib. of Phila., Monash Univ.…